LALKAR

MAY/JUNE 2024

• Continued Zionist genocide in Gaza

  Six months on, the Israeli genocidal war machine carries on its daily slaughter of innocent Palestinian men, women and children, relentlessly and remorselessly, Nearly 34,000 Palestinians have been murdered in cold blood; another 5,000 are missing, probably buried in the rubble to which Gaza has... [Read more]

• The Missiles of April

  by SCOTT RITTERIran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century.I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ‘ground truth’ about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated... [Read more]

• Ukraine – chaos in the anti-Russia front

  On Friday 22 March the Crocus City Hall near Moscow came under attack by terrorists. As some 6,000 people attended a rock concert in the hall in Krasnogorsk, a north Moscow suburb, the venue came under attack by four gunmen who fired randomly into the crowd and then set the hall alight, causing... [Read more]

• The role of the IMF impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded at the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944. This financial agency presents an image of itself as a democratic organisation that works “to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries… by supporting economic... [Read more]

• Why the Daily Mail doxed the British Delegation to the World Youth Festival 2024

  Nato’s power, the US’s hegemony and what remains of the British empire – all of which are bundled together – are in irreversible decline. The Multipolar World is coming into being and there is no room for imperialists in it. This is the context in which the World Youth Festival 2024 in Sochi took... [Read more]

• Immigrants are our class brothers and their contributions are vital to support pensions and welfare benefits for all

  As the next General Election looms into view over a very dark horizon, the backroom boys and girls of the British bourgeoisie’s political parties, sit fashioning the various footballs to be used in staged games to put on a show for the voting public. One of the biggest and seemingly most... [Read more]

• BOOK REVIEW: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 3

  Stalin is an obvious candidate for the most vitriolic abuse for under his leadership private property and the market suffered unprecedented hammer blows. Under his stewardship, socialism spread to eastern and central Europe, China, the DPRK and Vietnam, taking this vast mass, along with the USSR,... [Read more]

• An English worker at the heart of the origins of May Day – the story of Samuel Fielden

  May Day, the day of annual celebration of the international working class movement, originated in the United States where it was particularly associated with the struggle for the working day to be reduced to 8 hoursParticularly militant were the workers of Chicago whose militancy struck such... [Read more]